Short Film Planning: Main Narrative Idea

After doing quite a lot of research into our target audience, an audience we have eventually will be aimed at males aged 15 to 25 as they seem to be the most likely to enjoy a horror film. We also decided to fit the film into the Teen Centered Horror Sub Genre.

We have eventually decided that probably the best narrative idea that we came up with would be to work on a version of the horror film that we came up with earlier in the year. Look up previous blog entries under the title 'Death Trip'. To meet with the guidelines about having to use time as a theme, we have decided that the narrative of the film will involve flashbacks (Shown via a hand held Camera, that will act as the technology needed for the narrative). We also plan to use a technique that will present the audience with the real turn of events and a made up telling of the same event. A similar technique was used in the 2001 Drama The Hole:



Here is our basic narrative for the film:

Film starts with a policeman hammering on the door of the house, when the door unexpectedly swings open. As they walk down the hallway someone jumps out at them. One of the police officers leaves to investigate the scene of what the girl is describing, while his colleague interrogates the girl. The police officer in the woods stats to finds all the bodies of the missing teens and calls in for support from his colleague but there is no answer. He quickly returns to the house where he finds the house deserted with the only difference is a camera lying on the kitchen table. He picks up the camera and watches the events that really happened in the woods and then sees footage of his colleague watching the footage and then watches in horror as the camera drops. He turns around in horror and is killed by the girl they were trying to help.